Artist Biography
Hariharan Born 3 April 1955 is an SOngsplayback, bhajan and ghazal singer from Trivandrum, whose songs have been featured mainly in Tamil and Hindi. Also he sang notable songs in Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi and Bhojpuri films. He is an established Ghazal singer and one of the pioneers of Indian fusion music. In 2004, he was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India and is a two-time National Award winner. He is regarded as one of the greatest Indian singers of all time.
Hariharan, associating with Lesle Lewis, formed Colonial Cousins, a two-member band. They have cut many private music albums and also scored music for few feature films in Tamil cinema and Bollywood cinema.
On May 28, 2020, Hariharan and Late Gulshan Kumar’s Hanuman Chalisa recorded under the label of T-Series crossed 1-billion views mark on YouTube, making it the first devotional song in the world to do so.
Hariharan is one of the foremost Indian ghazal singers and composers with more than thirty albums to his credit. In his early career, he cut several successful ghazal albums, writing most of the scores himself. One of Hariharan’s first ghazal albums was Aabshar-e-Ghazal with Asha Bhosle, which went gold in sales.
Another outstanding ghazal album was Gulfam, which not only hit double platinum in sales but also fetched Hariharan the Diva Award for the Best Album of the Year in 1995.
